Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a longstanding and eminently wise football custom which dictates that neither the coaches nor the school newspaper of any institution beaten in a football game should say anything against the winning team which might imply that the game was won in an unfair or immoral fashion...
...spite of this custom, the Michigan Daily yesterday printed an article which claimed that Army went out of its way to inure key Wolverine players and in general performed in an illegal and unsportsmanlike fashion in the recent meeting of the schools. It further stated that Army repeated its immoral performances against Harvard, citing the injuries to Charley Roche and or Jimmy Noonan as evidence. Here is precisely what the Daily said...
...honey, Irish potatoes and dairy products, including whole milk -were made permanent at levels up to 90%. Furthermore, the Secretary was "authorized" to support any other commodity he wanted. Even perishable fruit & vegetables will get some of his bounty-the bill set aside approximately $100 million a year from custom revenues so that truck farmers could get in on the grab. ^ Farmers had long expressed dissatisfaction with the old parity 1909-14 base period. The bill provided a new parity formula, based on a time of even greater farm prosperity-the past ten years. To make this even more attractive...
...Paris, Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger ran into an old French custom. Speaking before the American Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap...
...custom, the vanquished leaders, Fitzgerald and Curley, met Ely to congratulate him on a public platform in Worcester. When it came time for Curley to speak, he rose and presented Ely with a check for $1000 --"to show my sincerity in the effort to elect Mr. Ely." The press the next day went wild, praising Curley for his magnanimity; but Mr. Ely was less enthused. The check had been made payable to the Boston City Committee --to be used by the mayor and not by Mr. Ely for getting out the Boston vote...